Radiator guard



, IVI. H. PEACOCK.

RADIATOR GUARD.

kAPPLlcATloN HLEu MAR..5, 1920.

Patented Oct. M

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Mt vehicles, particularly of passenger automobiles, and its object is to provide a guard which nia f be quickl. and easily attached to and detac ed from t e shell or the radiator as a unit without thel necessity of `changing `le the radiator shell in any manner or detachin any permanent part 'of the vehicle.

lilhis invention consists in a series ot upright. l ard bars, preferably of pressed steel, erteng across the radiating surfaces and. t@ also extending part -way over the shell or casings tor the upper and lower tanks, of cross b to which the guard members are secured, and meanswitor holg the guard f` in osition. tt t further consists in the details ot ccnstruction v illustrated4 in the accompanying drawing and particularly pointed out in the claims.. i i l lathe drawing., l is a trontelevation tu ot a radiatorprovi ed with my improved uit Figs. 2,3 anda are sections on a arr scale enfthe lines, 2 2, 3 3. and yresect'vi'ely.A i

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4 rlthe heat radiating members-oi the radi ators commonly used en' motor vehicles are allymade-oi verv thin coper and are liableto be bent and broken by si ight shocks it or blo,. 'llo prevent such inyury liz-have producedia ard which isl pleasing in ap- -pearangc'e and which can be-rdily attached to anddeh tromthe shell or casing et 'ate 91" i t. fcoiniip a 'notare which coi ein' the dat-cross l'l whose ends 2 aret'baclrto en e thefsideet et the radiator shell ,or ing. ll`hese bars are i preilerably'oitl somewhat resilient steelso that tu they will grip the riator and prevent rattling. To these bars 4'are secured the u right guard niemrs t which are pre'leb y en trom heavy eht e te f ieee. serai no. anni.

be of channel shape in cross section and are secured to the cross bars l by means or bolts 55 'llhe ends of these guard members lare preferably tapered and these members may be nickel plated to give them a pleasingappearance. Secured to the cross bars, and preferably Just back or themiddle guard meitnber,` arid preferably by the same bolts 5 which secure this central guard member to the cross bars 1, is -a Hat resilient retaining member ti whose upper end 7 is adapted to be 'slipped up back of the top front plate 8 of the shell or casing of the radiator and lwhose lowerportion 9 may be bent up around the bottom front plate 10 of this shell or casing. 'llhe spring of this retaining member holds the cross bars against the radiator casing. Any desired means may be employed to loclr the guard in position on the radiator. ll have shown a screw l1, which extends through the parts 9 and 10 and into ai threa ed hole in the up-turned end' 12.5

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, When Athis screw is taken out, the guard mayl be slipped 4down as a unit and removed.

l prefer to use but one bolt to secure each' guardl member to each cross bar so that the parts may be swung on these bolts to bring the guard members against each other to collapse the structureior shipment as an asl sembled product.

As further securing means ll may provide the device shown in ig. 3, which consistsin the screws 14- and the washers 15. hen', this guard is to be attached, the shell ot the radiator is removed and the upper end 7 ot the central bar t is slipped under the top te part 8 ot the shell. 'llhe washers '15 are now placed against the bach oi the side members it ot the wml shell and'thescrews 1d, screwed into proper holes in the cross bars l; latter being tightened. down the `iront ends vat ot the screws may'be rivetedrdown. f lfdesired, when these screws d washers kare usedithe upper end 7 may be letton the outside et the top plate-8 ot the shell. The distance. between the endsgot the guard members t and thejahellmay beA` varias de`v sired, but is preferably not more' than that showninfthe drawing. Ur'they may ceny tact-directly with the shell'. ,I I. The proportions 'and Veines, ot "the variopa may .i m`

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the art without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the following claimso tached and detached .as a Whole from the radiator and consisting of two iat cross bars of resilient metal having their ends bent back to grip the radiator to which the guard is attached, upright bars extending across` the air passages 1n the radiator and bolted to the front sides of the cross bars, and means to secure the guard to the radiator, said means consisting of an upright retaining bar secured to the rear side 0i' the cross bars, the upper end of the retaining bar being adapted to be inserted back of the front top plate of the radiator casing and the lower end to be attached to the front bottom plate of the radiator Casin MARSH LL H. PEACOCK. 

